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Human-Computer Interaction Institute Assistant Professor Chris Harrison joined 17 of the nation's most innovative early career scientists and engineers as a recipient of a 2014 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering.

Carnegie Mellon University will unveil its latest robot and present lunar exploration technologies at a technology fair, "Meet Andy: Technology for the New Moon,” from 10 to 11 a.m., Monday, Nov. 24, in the Planetary Robotics Laboratory, located on the first floor of the Gates and Hillman centers.

A Carnegie Mellon University programming team called XP-Developer earned a trip to the Association for Computing Machinery-International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals with a second place finish at the East Central North America ACM-ICPC competition.

More than 250 faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute will gather this weekend to celebrate the institute's 20th anniversary at HCII20. The event kicks off on Friday, Nov. 14, with a day of workshops and tutorials ranging from Fabrication Techniques for HCI Prototyping to Intro to Game Design. Attendees will gather for a cocktail reception that evening in the institute's renovated lab space at 407 South Craig Street.

PITTSBURGH—Martial Hebert, a leading researcher in computer vision and robotics at Carnegie Mellon University since 1984, will become director of the university's Robotics Institute, effective Nov. 15, School of Computer Science Dean Andrew W. Moore announced.Hebert succeeds Matthew Mason, who has led the institute for the last decade. A professor of robotics, Mason will return his focus to teaching and to his research on robotic manipulation.

PITTSBURGH—Smartphones wouldn't be so smart without their apps, yet many free apps pinpoint a user's location to deliver targeted ads or share contact lists with third parties without alerting the user. Which apps behave themselves and which don't? A new Carnegie Mellon University project, PrivacyGrade.org, can help sort them out.